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The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

Matthew Henry

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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
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Theologian
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If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.
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Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.
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What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
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The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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God's favour is happiness.
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For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love it is the sum of his law and gospel.
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Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
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The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
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Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.
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To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.
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We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
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Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.
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Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.
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...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.
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The Bible is a letter God has sent to us prayer is a letter we send to him.
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Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him take him for your prophet, and hear him take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.
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